2017 Money Smart Week Annual Report is now avaliable

With the help of many Money Smart Week (MSW) partners, planning teams and national champions across the country, the MSW 2017 campaign was a great success. Through this campaign, coordinated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, MSW partners and planning teams help leverage public-private partnerships to connect community members with thousands of free educational resources and opportunities during the week long campaign.

1. Know what you spend. Carry a small spiral notebook for a month and write down everything you buy with cash or debit cards. Other spending will show up in your checkbook register or credit card statement. 2. Spend less than you make. If you find that you spend more than you make, you will need to either make more or spend less. The option of using credit […]

Some people who have fluctuating monthly incomes find it difficult to know how to set up a monthly budget. Let me give you some advice on how that is done. It may be a bit more difficult to figure it out, but with a little planning and forethought it is certainly within your reach to do. Let’s break it down into three steps: Step 1. Determine how much money […]